INDONESIA is proposing a salary hike for its maids working in this country. From the current RM800 a month, the Indonesian authorities are asking that it be set at RM1,200. The uproar is to be expected. Malaysians are only too human in this respect. They so badly want the services of a domestic help but at prices they can afford and not what is a fair price to pay for the nature of the job, which they are themselves not enamoured with. Of course, the usual excuse is working women find household chores, child and parent caring too burdensome without help. If that is the case then due regard for the maids contribution to the employers sanity must be properly considered or the so-called œdouble burden be accepted as a social norm.
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